Social Work and Sexual Violence...Assignment #2

Felicia McCaw
SW 314
Social Work and
Sexual Violence
Assignment #2

Reference: Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/6/82.06.09.x.html


How Changing Sex Roles have Affected the
Family Unit in the United States


Compiled and written by:

Mara Dunleavy


Name of Study

How Changing Sex Roles have Affected the Family Unit in the United States

Literature

This study or unit addresses issues that affect American Society with an emphasis on sex roles and sex-role stereotyping and the subsequent development of sex roles throughout history. The second unit relates the changes affecting sex roles of families and emotional levels.

Method Used to Conduct the Study

No method of study indicated but a synopsis of events and progresses of sexual development and affects on family (which includes all family types).

Measures

No explicit details listed to reflect actual numbers but affects on marriages and family relayed.

Results and Conclusion of the Study

The change in sexual roles caused changes in family, emotional levels and structural changes. The head of each household became more populated with women because of differences in accepting the new role attributed and caused inner and outer stress affecting family structures.

Your opinion/thoughts about the study

It is obviously still an issue that changes in sexual roles have been questioned but as relayed by historical fact women have been the sole breadwinner for many centuries and it should not be an issue but unfortunately some people do not progress and use any excuse to placate themselves that they are correct in their assumption of superiority over women and try to assert rights that are not theirs to assert.